About a year ago OpenAI crawled and go DDOS level the company I work. Even despite the robots.txt not allowing it, and despite some recaptcha we could assemble in time.

We found our data in the outputs of their models but who can do anything about it...

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kibwen 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> We found our data in the outputs of their models but who can do anything about it...

If the crawlers refuse to voluntarily respect your robots.txt, then you are well within your rights to poison their data.

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hajile 2 hours ago | parent [-]

robots.txt seems like it should be a legally-binding terms of service which would make them outright copyright infringing.

Sue for $180,000 per infringement which should be calculated for each illegal API call.

	▲	throw1234567891 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Was your robots txt written by a lawyer? Does it hold up in the court?

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shimman an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why hasn't your company sued OpenAI and try to argue they're violating the computer abuse and fraud act? Would it really be impossible to argue this?

Unauthorized access, system damage, and maybe even extortion all apply here.

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rastrojero2000 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Lawyers can. As long as that data is actually yours I mean, in a strictly legal sense.

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telotortium 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, did you check the IPs and make sure they’re from OpenAI? Obviously a fly-by-night AI company is going to set their User Agent to be from a big player.